The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-11
THINGS HEARD AND SEEN.

"Did you ever see the law Office of David Tur-
pie. who wants to represent Indiana in the Sem
ate of the United Statesl" asked an attorney.
''You ought TO pay it a call 1t will remind you
of some poor young man. who has been waiting
ten years for client. who never came. 1t is in
an obscure part of the building, No. 241
East Washingto street The only direction to
it is the following inscription on a narrow strip
of tin tackled across the door; David Turpie
Notary Public" The furnishings of the office
are as elm pie as the sign the door. AS long
as he has been at the bar he has never had the
courage 10 put up sign calling himself at
torney at law
One of the brilliant young students of mathe-
mates in Butler University has recently be-
come infatuated with dancing. He was told by
his room mate that he could soon become much
moro graceful If he would purchase pair of
dancing pumps and use them for while. The
young didn't know what dancing pumps
were but he concluded to try pair anyhow
On Saturday he came 20 the CITY, and went to
wholesale pump house, and asked for dane
ing pump The clerk grasped the situation.
and told him they had none in stock. but that if
he would go to the factory of Wright 81 Co, on
South Pennsylvania street. he could be accom-
mcdated He went, and acknowledged there
were many things that college students didn't
know. when the manager of the factory told him
he would have to go to shoe-store to get what
he desired.
1T is pity the country is not made more at
tractive for boys" said Judge Jordan, one of the
directors of the Indiana Reform School, yester-
day. "There is constant influx of country
boys to the city that is alarming, and it is all
the result of the country not being made more
attractive. Boys growing up demand amuse-
ments, and if they cannot find them in the coun-
try q Tins 8 a so
many country boys run away from home to the
cities. Four-ffrhs of the boys of the farm now
want to get to the city they reach
their teens. and, the result, the city is over
crowded with young men who can find
poyment. The influx should be from the cities
to the country, and the time is coming, be-
lieve, when that will be the case. Legitimate
sources of amusement should be established
every township in the State of character that
will attract the attention of the boys. and they
will be content to stay where they can be most
successful
THE attorneys are the men wlD are in hard
lines in Indianapolis to-day" said an old lawyer
| yesterday. land l can't see how a young man.
after looking the situation. convince
himself that he ought to read law. There are
| two causes for the lack of business with the
| lawyers First, there isn't half the legal bust
| ness there was ten years ago, and secondly, the
| collecting and abstract business has nearly all
| been taken out of their hands. Several years
| ago many attorneys made the most of their
| money out of collections, and procuring alb
| stracts, but now the collecting agencies and
| banks of the city do nearly all the former, and
| tho men who are making abstracting speciality
| do the latter
| 81 was a boy sixteen years old, living on a
! farm near Shelbyville, when the news came that
John Morgan had sent word to Indianapolis that
he was going to water his horses in White river
there on certain day." said Sergeant John
Lowe to group of police officers who were tell
| ing war stories, few nights ago. ''The coun-
| try wild. In less than two hours sixty
| farmers boys from around Shelbyville were on
their horses armed with muskets, ready to GO
and fight Morgan Our mothers and swee [
hearts bid US goodbye with fearful eyes, and we
set out for Indianapolis. My father had the
fastest running horse in the county. and l rode
him, because | had made up my mind IL there
was any fighting TO he done, | would probably
want a horse l could get out of the way on.
Well, reached the city about dusk and
took up our camp in what's now Military Park.
Early the next morning we were called and or
dered to mount, and in a few minutes were of
down the Three notch road We had no idea
where were going and think worse scared
set of boys were never away from home. II
some lonely hunter had been squirrel hunting in
the swamps south OF town, and had shot twice
in succession, Ill wager that the fastest horse il
the county couldn't have caught one of US inside
of ten miles. We were all trembling in oul
boots until we rode in sight of Sheibyvile. anl
realized that were going home. l think w.
| cried for Joy. The women met a mile from
town and waved their handkerchiefs and shouted
Brave boys, home from the war'-and that wa
our war experience"